Understand where production time is lost.
Instrument one production line so downtime reasons, availability, performance, and quality sit in one view. The first aim is a trustworthy picture of lost time — not a plant-wide rollout.
When this is useful.
This is useful when production time is discussed in meetings but the reasons are not recorded in one place. Supervisors need a shared view of unplanned downtime, performance loss, and quality loss on a single line before anyone talks about expanding the model.
How the workflow operates.
- 01
Capture
Line events and downtime reasons are recorded consistently.
- 02
Classify
Availability, performance, and quality use one agreed definition.
- 03
Review
Supervisors can see where time is lost, and why.
- 04
Act
The team decides what to change using the same baseline.
What we would build.
- Event capture for the selected production line
- A written definition of availability, performance, and quality
- Downtime reason codes the team will actually use
- A line view that shows where time is lost
- A baseline taken before any later automation is considered
What we need to start.
- The production line in scope
- How downtime is recorded today, even if it is incomplete
- The signals you already trust for availability, performance, and quality
- The reason codes supervisors can agree on
Where your team stays in control.
Supervisors still decide what to change on the line. The view makes lost time visible. It does not dispatch maintenance on its own, and it does not assume a predictive-maintenance programme.
A focused first pilot.
The first pilot is one production line, with reliable availability, performance, and quality inputs. Predictive maintenance and multi-plant deployment are outside that initial scope.
How success is measured.
We record unplanned downtime, the three OEE components, and scrap rate against the baseline taken at the start. Those figures describe the line in scope. They are not a claim about other lines or plants.
Unplanned downtime
Hours of unplanned stoppage on the line in scope, against the baseline you record first.
OEE components
Availability, performance, and quality using one shared definition.
Scrap rate
Scrap or rework against the same baseline, for the line in scope.
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Start with one line and a shared definition of lost time.
Tell us which line you want to understand first, and how downtime is recorded today.